Clippy for VI: What we all have been waiting for

misc, posted: 22-Aug-2008 08:52

Here is what we command-line users have always wanted. Microsoft's assistant - Clippy - for VI.

I found this animated GIF via reddit on a site called houghi.org. But I have no idea who originally produced this image.

Good stuff...

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Comment by freitasm, on 22-Aug-2008 09:13

ROFL...

Comment by clint, on 21-Oct-2008 03:06

Beautiful :-) Although I think emacs users need

clippy more than vi users ;) I certainly hope this

never comes to pass on any flavor of unix/linux.

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